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James Stephens

Ireland (1882 - 1950)

About James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish novelist and poet. He wrote many retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. His retellings are marked by a rare combination of humor and lyricism.

Novels

The Crock of Gold (1912)

Collections

In the Land of Youth (1924)
Etched in Moonlight (1928)

Anthologies edited

Irish Fairy Tales (1920)
Traditional Irish Fairy Tales (1996)

Anthologies containing stories by James Stephens

The Moonlight Traveller (1949)

Short stories

	The Romance of Angus Og and Caer (1924)
	The Story of Midir and Etain (1924)
	The Tale of Nera (1924)
	Desire (1928)

James Stephens recommends

The Worm Ouroboros (1922)
E R Eddison
"Mr Eddison is a vast man. He needed a whole cosmos to play in, and created one; and he forged a prose to tell of it that is as gigantic as his tale."

A Fish Dinner in Memison (1941)
(Zimiamvia, book 2)
E R Eddison
"His pages are living, and vivid, and noble, and are these in a sense that belongs to no other writer I know of...this is the largest, the most abundant, the most magnificent book of our time."

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